Improvement in corn-planters



www dem 7 @atentdmre Leners Patent No. 107,908, daad october 4, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS. I

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH 1t. HOLLAND, of

XVilrningtonfin the county of Fluvanna and State of Virginia, have invented a new and nsefulniprove nient in Gern-Planters.; andl'dol hereby declare that .the following is full, clear, and exact description l of the same, reference beipg had to the accompanying drawing forming fa part' of this specification, in which the figure ista side elevation.

y This invention relates 'toa plantein which the slide is thrown forward in the direction necessary to drop theseed, by means of a pin; projecting from the side of the master-wheel, and is `drawn back, after each forward movement, by means of a weight.

` vThe invention consistsin a weight forthis purpose, inadein the/form of an elbow, hung above the slide, with one arm extending Vdownward and in contact with a flange, projecting upward from the` slide, and the other or loaded arm extending forward in such position that its gravitation opposes every forward movement of the slide, and produces every backward one, said elbow being so pivotedv that it may he turned back until its loaded arm rests on a cross-bar, and the weightis thus rendered inoperative with respect to the slide, which is desirable when ,the planter is moving over ground where seed should'not be dropped, as in turning corners or` in traveling to and from the field. In the drawing A is4 the frame of theplanter.A l a, the seed-slide.' b, the master-wheel. c, the-pins in the side of the master-wheel.

Il, theloaded arm of the elbow. l e, the other arm of the elbow.

It, theztlange of the seed-slide, against which the arm e bears. g

fi., one of the standards. in which the rock-shaft of' the weighted elbow is mounted.

A7'one of the standards in rear of the standards 0'-,

in which the cross-bar k is placed, that supports the 'loaded arm d when the latter is turned back.

I am aware that the use of a weight, to retract the seed-slide, is not new in itself.

Having' thus described my invention, Thatfl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y y The"l seedslide a, provided with the ange h,and combined with the elbow e, provided with the loaded arm d, when the loaded elbow is so arranged that it may be turned back away from the slide, so as to render the latter inoperative, substantially as described.

f HEZEKIAH R. HOLLAND.

`Witnesses SoLoN'O. KEMON, GHAs, A. PETTIT. 

